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Subject: Re: [Bell of Lost Souls] It's Canon: Baldur's Gate 3 Brings D&D To
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:20:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 18:41 this Saturday (GMT):
> On 11/16/2024 5:42 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:50:34 -0800, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>> Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/15/2024 12:37 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
>>>> Top post. First off, please knock it off with the non ANSI characters.
>>>>
>>>> I've never had so much trouble posting a reply.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:32:27 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>>>> Kyonshi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11/15/2024 1:11 AM, Justisaur wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/14/2024 10:55 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
>>>>>>> Kyonshi  <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> At any rate, it is ironic see D&D go from Satanic Panic to being
>>>>>>>> installed somewhere in the Vatican in just a few short decades. Never
>>>>>>>> let anyone tell you who you are.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm sure D&D was played in some form in the precincts of the Vatican
>>>>>>> long before Baldur's Gate 3 was released.  Maybe even during the time
>>>>>>> when the Satanic Panic thing was raging in the US and to a lesser extent
>>>>>>> the rest of the English speaking world, but not so much in Italy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know that it was Catholics going after D&D.  BADD was
>>>>>> popularized by evangelicals - specifically the TV kind.  Jack Chick was
>>>>>> was some very weird offshoot of Baptist.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And I think D&D was too niche back then to even touch some area like
>>>>> that (which is after all just the size of a small town, even in the
>>>>> middle of a metropolis), especially as a lot of inhabitants of the
>>>>> Vatican city are elder professionals.
>>>>>
>>>>> One would have to look up when DnD was released in Italian maybe.
>>>>
>>>> All I know, and excuse me if I'm repeating this story for the 19th time,
>>>> is that my Irish Catholic grandmother bought me a first print 1e *Deities
>>>> & Demigods* for freaking Easter. I asked for it, and she was all "Yup."
>>>> So no, I don't think her priest was railing against Satan in D&D.
>>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure it was an American phoneme.
>> 
>> LOL. No, ethnically Irish. At the time we had Irish and Italian Catholics
>> in America. She was definitely an American.
>> 
> I meant the whole "D&D is a satanic cult" thing was American, not that 
> playing D&D was only American.


Probably, that tracks with how American christians are sometimes.
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